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ʕĪsà ʕUbayd, Muqaddima (1921)

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III-§1.a

وقد جاء الدكتور أحمد ضيف أستاذ الآداب العربية بالجامعة المصرية في كتابه "مقدّمة في بلاغة العرب" مؤيداً لنا في نظريتنا

wa-qad ǧāʔa ’l-duktūr ʔAḥmad Ḍayf ʔustāḏ al-ʔādāb al-ʕarabiyyaẗ bi’l-ǧāmiʕaẗ al-miṣriyyaẗ fī kitābi-hī "Muqaddimaẗ fī balāġaẗ al-ʕarab" muʔayyid^an la-nā fī naẓariyyati-nā

In his book Introduction to the Rhetoric of the Arabs,¹ Dr Aḥmad Ḍayf,² Professor of Arabic Literature at the Egyptian University,³ has shown to be a supporter of our theory

1. The title is given as Muqaddimaẗ fī Balāġaẗ al-ʕArab here. The correct form, however, was Muqaddimaẗ li-[Dirāsaẗ] Balāġaẗ al-ʕArab (published al-Qahiraẗ, Maṭbaʕaẗ al-Sufūr, 1921). 2. Egyptian literary critic, 1880-1945. »Ḍayf was one of the first theorists of the so-called adab qawmī, which aimed to create a new literature marked by realism, local colour and a Western style« – Ed C.M. De Moor, art. »Ḍayf, Aḥmad (1880-1945)«, in EAL, i: 185. 3. The first secular university in Egypt, founded in 1908.

AR: ʔAḥmad Ḍayf, ʔādāb, ʕarabī, miṣrī (Miṣr / Miṣriyyaẗ), balāġaẗ, ʕarab, naẓariyyaẗ
EN: …

إذ قال بوجوب إيجاد آداب عربية مصبوغة بصبغة مصرية ،

ʔiḏ qāl bi-wuǧūb ʔīǧād ʔādāb ʕarabiyyaẗ maṣbūġaẗ bi-ṣibġaẗ miṣriyyaẗ,

when he talked about the necessity of creating an Arabic literature coloured in [specifically] Egyptian colours.

AR: ʔīǧād, ʔādāb, ʕarabī, maṣbūġ / ṣibġaẗ, miṣrī (Miṣr / Miṣriyyaẗ)
EN: [specifically] Egyptian colours

ولا شكّ أنّ كتابه هذا سيخلق عهداً جديداً في عالم الأدب المصري الحديث ، ويخطّ طريقاً جديداً للأدباء .

wa-lā šakk^a ʔanna kitāba-hū hāḏā sa-yaḫluq^u ʕahd^an ǧadīd^an fī ʕālam al-ʔadab al-miṣrī al-ḥadīṯ, wa-yaḫuṭṭ^a ṭarīq^an ǧadīd^an lil-ʔudabāʔ.

There is no doubt that this book will create a new era for modern Egyptian literature and that it will sketch a new path for creative writers⁴ to follow.

4. al-ʔudabāʔ – could also be rendered, more generally, as ‘the literati’.

AR: ǧadīd, ʔadab, miṣrī (Miṣr / Miṣriyyaẗ), ḥadīṯ (ḥadāṯaẗ), ǧadīd, ʔudabāʔ (ʔadab)
EN: …

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